Whew! I can't believe...the Monday before the service!
Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Allemande BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: The God of New Beginnings has called us to this place.People: We come celebrating the new life that is ours as God’s faithful people.Leader: Let your joy ring through the universe, and let your vision see to the depths of every soul.
Congregation: We will be shouters of joy and seekers of God’s light wherever we go. Praise God for this day!
--Sandra E. Graham
OPENING HYMN* No. 2236 Gather Us In ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Eternal God,. You love us steadfastly, but we have trouble loving in return’ you call us, but we have wax-filled ears; you reveal yourself, but our eyelids are heavy; you lead us toward our neighbor, but we build walls around ourselves; you hate evil, injustice, and alienation, but we get used to it. O God, we pray, help us to see ourselves both as we are and as we might be before you, and draw us by your Spirit’s tether into your forgiving, renewing, and serviceable grace, through the mercies of Christ. Amen.
--David D. Bowman
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Jeremiah 1:4-10 & I Corinthians 13:1-13 Rev. John Flowers
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: The Gift of Love
Text I Corinthians 13, Music Hal H. Hopson
Sanctuary Choir; Mark Rubinstein, accompanist
Though I mad speak with bravest fire,
And have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love;
My words are vain, as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess,
And striving so my love profess,
But not be giv’n by love within,
The profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
Our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide ev’ry deed.
By this we worship and are freed.
Amen.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Emily Watkins, viola
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2228 Sacred the Body ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Courante BWV 1007 J.S. Bach
Rebekah Ward, viola
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